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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 8

When the common jurymen were called in the - Supreme Court yesterday morning, one, Clarence Dalley, failed to answer his name. After proof of.ser-r 1 vice had been given by a constable his Honour Mr Justice-Kennedy fined the absentee £5. /- The jmyman* later made an appearance, however, and -stated that he was receiving medical attention for war injuries to .bis ' head. < Bis memory was sometimes- affected, and it was such a lapse -that oaused him to overlook the attendance ,at Court. His' Honout remitted the fine. f .The for - the -handling over of the Bowker 1 fountain oa Thtors-' day evening include the provision of a temporary platfbrm v fot the .Mayor and members of the .City 1 Council and members of the'Bowker family. r Mr H. L. Bowker will formally ask the, Mayor to accept the fountain on behalf of .the City, and Mr P. W. Johnston will speak' on behalf of the Bowker-family. The Mayoress (Mrs J. K.-Archer) will then turn on.the water and the electric current. Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson and Mr B. B. Owen will represent the Beautifying Association at the ceremony. Just before the opening of the' ceremony, which is to be at 9 p.m., and ' until just after it, the band.concert on the-rotunda will ob'serve anf interval. " 'Jhe~Riecarton Borough' Coundil recently wrote to the Railway Department drawing attention to\ a fence at the corner of Lowe-and Poster streets.' At Jast night's meeting of the-Borough Council a letter waa received fj'pm'the Department to' the effect, that itVdia not intend.to take any-action in the matter. Cr. W. Maqnin moved that tho- Council', infoign the Department that it \ noticed 1 ;"that 1 ' latter did not • intend to act as suggested by the Borough, and also that it would hold the -Department responsible for any accident that might happen at the crossing.' In seconding "the motion Cr. H. W. Wise said that' -he'was suiprised, in view of ,th<» .Railway Department's admission that the crossing was a' dangerous one, that it could not afford a Qjrclone fence intend of-the on,o jio» i» UMk, The motion waa carried. , ''-if'', "if ■ *♦ kJ "> *'' ?,l 4 ft 4 S A